Wei Yuan made a circle of fate in the town early in the morning, what kind of spicy soup, meat buns, mutton stewed noodles, and beef fried cakes...... Eat with chicken thighs with a full belly!

What do you say Erha? Wei Yuan and the chicken leg just went to eat breakfast when Erha didn't wake up.

When it was almost noon, the chicken leg lying on the awning was looking forward to it, saying that it was going to the county seat.

At this time, Erha came from nowhere. When it woke up, it was already empty, and it didn't just catch up.

Because he didn't eat anything in the morning, Erha's stomach growled as he walked, his tail clamped tightly, and his ears drooped down and he was listless.

Wei Yuan's face was distressed: "Ha'er, are you hungry, right? I knew that you didn't eat in the morning, this is what my father and I didn't want to eat for you, eat it quickly!"

Erha was grateful and shed tears, and the food was delicious!

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Pinghu County is located at the southern end of Changshui Province, in the middle of Hangzhou Bay.

Because of the abundant products and the prosperity of Shanghai trade, the county seat is very prosperous, and it is more prosperous than the salt-producing Haiyan County.

In this county, there is a wide Pinghu Lake, which was also quite famous 60 years ago. There are always ronins coming to check in. It's the same as those of the afterlife.

However, in the past 60 years, the water level and area of Pinghu Lake have gradually shrunk, and now the size is less than half of its original size.

Originally, the Yanghu Mountain where Zhao Laohan was located was called Yanghu Mountain, and the mountain range was by the lake, and the reflection of the mountain rippled in the lake, as if lying in the lake. In the past 20 years, the lake has receded seven or eight miles, so the name of the mountain has been changed.

However, after all, Pinghu County is on the edge of Hangzhou Bay, which is a rare natural port for offshore trade, and the north-south trade here is very prosperous, so there are many rich people.

When it comes to rich people, there is one word that has to be mentioned, and that is the merchant gang.

When society develops to a certain extent, capitalism will gradually sprout as the economy prospers.

This world is similar, what Jin merchants, Zhejiang merchants and the like that appeared during the Ming Dynasty suffered a devastating trauma at the end of the Ming Dynasty. But capital never sleeps, and businessmen still found a reasonable way to exist in the new dynasty.

Slowly, the business name became stronger, merchants from all over the country began to hold together, and merchants of various categories began to unite in competition.

In order to absorb more benefits, the voice of merchants gradually began to increase, especially in the past hundred years, the Great Zhou court has gradually stopped doing business.

Especially for two successive generations of emperors with cerebral palsy, one wants to become an immortal, and the other thinks that he is the reincarnation of the Buddha.

In this case, businessmen began to infiltrate the court and began to support their spokesmen on the throne.

At the same time, merchants everywhere found that the power of one or a few families was not enough to compete with those Confucian ministers in the court. Gradually, they began to unite, forming what is now known as the Shang Gang.

The current top ten merchant gangs in the Great Zhou Dynasty, I am afraid that the cash of each one is several times that of the state treasury. In many cases, natural disasters and man-made disasters make the imperial court shy in their pockets, and even have to borrow from these big merchants.

And often at this time, those at the helm of the big business gang will be generous and conditionally donating money to fight for the right to speak and influence.

At the same time, they began to infiltrate education, began to donate money to build private schools and academies, and selected those who studied to give them funding, especially those who were close to them.

Over the past sixty or seventy years, this merchant gang has been like a towering tree, with dense and lush shade covering the sky of the Great Zhou, and the roots of the tree are intertwined and penetrating deep into the underground of the Great Zhou.

Although there is competition and even fighting between the merchant gangs, and there are also internal conflicts and games within them, the merchant gang as a whole has become a huge monster that cannot be surmounted, cannot be handled, and has a big tail.

Referring to the three star consortiums of the stick country, you can probably understand.

It's just that the Great Zhou is vast after all, and where can a merchant gang eat? Therefore, it is often a merchant gang that occupies one or two provinces, monopolizes three or four major industries, and controls the clothing, food, housing, and transportation of tens of millions of people in the dawn.

Nowadays, those parents and officials and the feudal ambassadors on the pastoral side are inevitably dealing with the Shang Gang.

As long as the business gang cooperates with you, you will be all right and everything will go well.

If the Shang Gang gives you a yang and yin violation, then you can say that you drink cold water and stuff your teeth.

And because the big merchant gang controls the local economic lifeline, and controls that most people eat, drink, and lazar, so you can't do anything about him, but he can stumble you in all aspects.

Not to mention the attacks of the spokesmen of the other side in the DPRK and China, just not being able to collect taxes is enough for you!

The big business gang are all absolute big taxpayers in the local area, and those parents, officials, prefects, and governors can still target their own financial fathers?

Not only can it not be targeted, but it must also be given sufficient support and protection.

Some big merchant gangs clashed with people, and the local government yamen took down the other party first without saying a word!

went to the local yamen to fight a lawsuit with the local big businessmen, but he couldn't win.

Sometimes, even because you said something to "slander" the big merchant gang, the government yamen issued a sea fishing document and sent officials across several provinces to arrest you!

If you are caught, they will not be beaten or killed, they will mentally torture you and then throw you into the bitter kiln to be punished, and some of them will not be in court for several years, and they will detain you without a sentence!

Sometimes there is a conflict between the two big merchant gangs, which is interesting!

Those big merchant gangs haven't dropped much, and the yamen in the two places are going to do it! You deduct my payment, I will detain your caravan, that's a lot of fun!

Sometimes a big merchant gang really doesn't take advantage of it, and it falls into disadvantage in the competition, and people can turn waste into treasure.

After all, the big businessmen have helped his subordinates to gather hundreds of scholars, and they have been planning to launder their own father for 996 years, and they have been deceived by others, and now they can only buy a thousand cans of hot sauce for their shopkeepers and guys.

It really provoked the sympathy of many ignorant fools......

And it is impossible for the big merchant gang to completely eat up all the benefits, and there is no scum left. You always have to get by on the face!

The kind of food that looks extremely ugly, and the merchant gang that doesn't give others a way to live generally can't grow, and it will disintegrate in ten or eight years.

Nowadays, the big business gang model has become popular, and everyone's routines are very skillful.

Deliberately leave gaps for small merchants and local businesses to eat some leftovers, and use the "small profits" that the big merchants look down on to soothe those small landlords and small business associations, divert social contradictions, and release social pressure.

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And this Pinghu County merchant gang is a famous small merchant gang in Changshui Mansion.

It is also one of the best in Changshui Mansion, of course, it still has to be ranked after dozens of merchants in Zhejiang Province. That's why I'm so rich and extravagant that I sleep in a 500-square-meter bed and wear gold and silver for my dog~

And the Pinghu merchant gang Zhongqian Tong firm is the strongest main firm.

The old man of the Qian family was not particularly wealthy when he was young, and he made a fortune when he ran a businessman. But I once encountered a monster on the way to run a business, and I jumped into the water and swam five or six miles in the cold season of early winter before I escaped with my life.

As a result, the little brother was frostbitten, no, he only got an only son in his forties.

This education problem is definitely a huge problem for the rich generation.

When they are young and strong, they put all their energy into their careers, but as a result, their children tend to grow crooked because they are suddenly rich and have not undergone systematic professional education.

It's just that Master Qian, the only son of Qian Tongqian, is not ordinary, this goods are crooked and evil!

Don't talk about eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, he will flirt with other people's big girls and little daughters-in-law at every turn, and even some handsome sons and sons and gentlemen will not let go!

It's not that there are no capable people to govern him, and he has also been beaten by some chivalrous people on the rivers and lakes. It's just that because of the prestige of the Pinghu Merchant Gang, they don't dare to make a heavy hand.

Qian Tongqian is also a bastard, hob meat, leading a stubborn donkey who does not go backwards.

At most, people forget the pain when the scar is good, and he is healed and the scar is worse.

Now no one in Pinghu County dares to mess with this person, it's just a piece of shit. You can't do anything to him, but if he stands in front of you and doesn't have to touch him, you're going to be nauseous enough.

Coincidentally, Wei Yuan had just come out of a restaurant with chicken legs and Ha'er, and he was going to set off with a mouthful of oil, intending to replenish some supplies, and happened to run into this former young master of Qian Tong who was doing something.

Wei Yuan saw dozens of people at the intersection sloppy onlookers more than ten meters away, so he went up to ask an old man in his forties.

The old brother was setting up a stall to buy wontons, glanced at Wei Yuan, and said, "Little master, don't go forward, this is not a good thing." If you let that young master Qian see it, maybe you will have to cause trouble. ”

"Young Master Qian, what are you doing?"

Brother Wonton also looked at Wei Yuan (high charm), and couldn't bear to see him fall into the tiger's mouth, and whispered: "The Qian family, the top spot of the Pinghu Business Gang." On this street, that street, and the three streets here, eighty percent of the shops are owned by the Qian family, and there are five or six sea boats at home, and the power is great. ”

"That Young Master Qian is the only son of the Qian family, a figure like the demon king of the mixed world! That is really bullying men and women! Men and women eat all, and meat and vegetables are not taboo! Little master, you are dazzling, if you are discovered by this young master Qian, you will not be in trouble, so let's leave quickly!"

At this time, I heard a lewd voice chirping in Lailai and shouted: "Son, you will leave me! Come to my house and be happy, why bother selling some calligraphy and paintings here? This is a hundred taels of silver tickets, and I have bought all your calligraphy and paintings!"

Wei Yuan took a look, it turned out to be a passing scholar, who was shy and wanted to buy some calligraphy and paintings in exchange for some entanglement, so he let this master who bullied men and women be targeted.

There were seven or eight small families next to it, as well as two guards with knives and swords, who were still bodyguards, and they had already surrounded the small bookstall.

"Hiss~" Looking at the expression of the young master Qian, oh my God, Wei Yuan couldn't wait to smash the dragon descending staff on his face!

Wei Yuan gasped, what a strongman lock man. Slipped!

Wei Yuan hurriedly wanted to leave, mainly because this fact gave people goosebumps.

I heard the scholar say nervously: "You don't want to come here, I, I am married, and my wife and old servant are waiting at the city gate!"

Who knew that after hearing this, the young master Qian was even more excited: "That's great! Quickly invite my sister-in-law and wife together, forget about the old servant, and send him fifty taels!"

Wei Yuan shook his head and sighed that the world was going down, and just as he turned around to leave, he suddenly swept something out of the corner of his eye!

Wei Yuan looked back, yo!

Wei Yuan saw a painting, which was a picture of a beautiful woman grooming by the lake. There's a word on the side!

Wei Yuan's mind flashed, and he walked up with the Nine Rings of Dragon Descending Staff.

"This scholar, how do you sell this painting?"

The young man couldn't wait, where could he allow others to make trouble, and shouted impatiently: "Don't buy it, get out of here!" Go buy a little, I'll interrupt you...... Oops!"

When he turned his head and saw Wei Yuan's appearance, he was immediately stunned!

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